“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown ...

An exhibit on nine people enslaved by George Washington while he lived as president in Philadelphia remains in tact at Independence National Historical Park as of Friday, despite efforts from the ...

The man who would come to be called Harry Washington was born near the Gambia River, in West Africa, around 1740. As a young man, he was sold into slavery and endured the horrors of the Middle Passage ...